应用心理学专业英语大纲

1、.应用心理学专业英语课程教学大纲一、课程基本概述课程名称：应用心理学专业英语课程名称（英文） ： Applied Psychology课程编号： BL19243课程总学时：36课程学分： 2课程分类：专业课（必修）开设学期： 5适用专业：应用心理学先修课程 :普通心理学，社会心理学，发展心理学等。二、课程性质、目的和任务应用心理学专业英语是高等院校应用心理学专业本科生所选修的一门专业双语课程。通过该课程的学习使学生不仅能够掌握本专业英语术语的表达方法，而且能学习权威专家最新的研究成果，从而提高专业英语水平的听、说、读、写的能力。三、课程主要内容、重点及深度Chapter 1What is ps

2、ychology？（一）教学内容Section 1Definitions ： The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.Section 2History ： It comes from Philosophy&Biology&PhysicsSection 3Start time： It is 1879 when Wilhelm Wundt created the first psychology laboratory in LeipzigSection 4Develop ： Structuralism( 建构主义 ) Functi

3、onalism （机能主义） Psychoanalysis（精神分析） Behaviourism （行为主义） Cognitive psychology （认知主义） Humanistic approach （人本主义） Biological approach （生物学观点）（二）教学重点心理学定义，心理学发展历史。（三）教学难点.心理学发展过程中的各学派代表观点、理论等。（四）教学基本要求掌握心理学发展简史及基本理论的英语表述。Chapter 2The psychoanalytic approach to psychology（一）教学内容Section 1Origins and histo

4、ry Developed mainly by Sigmund Freud Influenced by the technology of the timeSection 2Assumptions Unconscious processes Psychic determinism Hydraulic drives Psychodynamic conflict Stages of developmentSection 3Methods of investigation Free association Latent content Manifest contentSection 4Areas of

5、 explanation Personality development M oral gender development Aggression Abnormality MemorySection 5Practical applicationSection6StrengthsSection7Weaknesses(二 )教学重点精神分析学派发展过程（三）教学难点精神分析学派各种假设、理论（四）教学基本要求掌握精神分析学派主要代表理论的英语表述。Chapter 3The nature-nurture debate in psychology（一）教学内容section 1Approaches R

6、oots of approach Causes of hebavior Methods employed. Implications Critissmssection 2Areas of explanation Perception Aggression Sex-role behavior Abnormality Language acquisitionSection 3Interactionism Two influences form a continuum Interact so thoroughly with each other that they are virtually ins

7、eparableSection 4The standing of the differenr approaches in psychology Biopsychology Psychoanalysis Cognitive psychology Humanism Behaviorism（二）教学重点什么是先天论，后天论，代表观点（三）教学难点先天论和后天伦的争辩（四）教学基本要求深入理解先天论和后天论理论观点；掌握相关专有词汇的英语表达Chapter 4Hypotheses（一）教学内容Section 1How do psychologists make their predictions? H

8、ypotheses are precise,refutable statements. Psychologists should be bold,precise and refutable. Hypotheses can be experimental and correlational.(二 )教学重点什么是假设，假设的特点（三）教学难点假设的种类（实验假设、相关假设）（四）教学基本要求掌握两种假设的英语表述.Chapter 5Are you a “natural ”?（一）教学内容section 1Introducton & Theoretical propositions Source

9、of human psychological differences:The Minnesota study of twins reared apart. Identical twins(Monozygotic twins)Section 2Method Participants ProcedureSection 3Results The degree of similarities MZA MATSection 4Disscussion and implications of findingsIntellegence is primarily determined by genetic fa

10、ctors(70%genetic influence,30%environmental influence) The basic underlying assumption is that human characteristics are determined by somecombination of genetic and environmental influences.The most intriguing implication that Bouchard and Lykken suggest is that it s not the environment influencing

11、 people s characteristics,but vice versa.Section 5Criticisms and related researchSection 6Recent application Applied to the larger philosophical discussion of human cloning(二 )教学重点基因和环境影响的作用，实验假设，实验方法（三）教学难点实验数据统计，对实验结果分析及讨论（四）教学基本要求掌握心理学实验研究中的英语表述，以及相关专有词汇Chapter 6Acting as you are hypnotized（一）教学内

12、容Section 1Introduction Nicholas Spanos,Hypnosis is nothing more than an increased state of motivation to perform certain behaviors and can be fully explained without resorting to trances or altered states. The beginnings are traced back to the middle of the eighteenth century It s the job of scienti

13、sts to look upon the status quo with a critical eye and whenever they see fit,to debunk common beliefs.Section 2Theoretical propositions Spanos theorized that all of the behaviors aommonly attributed to a hypnotic trance state are.within the normal,voluntary abilities of humansSection 3.MethodSectio

14、n 4Results and disscussionsSection 5The belief that behavior is involuntarySection 6Creation of Expectation in Hypnotic SubjectsSection 7Recent applications(二 )教学重点什么是催眠，催眠实验（三）教学难点关于催眠的代表理论观点及应用（四）教学基本要求了解催眠的含义，理解催眠涉及的基本理论，并掌握与催眠相关的专有词汇Chapter 7Unlearned behavior-Emotion（一）教学内容Section 1Introduction

15、 Emotional reactions become wholly separated from the stimuli that originally called them out The instinctive positive reaction tendencies displayed by the child soon become overlaid withthe organized habits of the adult.Section 2What is an emotion ？An emotion is an hereditary ”pattern-reaction ” in

16、volving profound changes of the bodily mechanism as a whole,but particularly of the visceral ajd glandular systems.Section 3Additional formulationSection 4The Genetic Study of Emotion in the Child Observations upon the child are similar to those which were made upon animals beforeThorndike and Lloyd

17、 Morgan introduced the experimental method.(二 )教学重点非习得行为的含义，情绪的含义及种类（三）教学难点情绪中涉及的心理学理论，行为主义关于情绪的研究（四）教学基本要求了解情绪，掌握行为主义对于情绪的定义和解释，学习情绪涉及到的英语词汇和固定搭配.四、学时分配章内容各教学环节学时分配作 业备序讲授实验习题课外其他小计题量注一What is psychology200002二Thepsychoanalyticapproachto200002psychology三Thenature-nurturedebate in psychology四 Hypotheses五 Are you a “natural”Actingasyouare六hypnotizedUnlearned七behavior-Emotion八总复习总计五、课程教学的基本要求和主要环节2000022000026000061212882236000036课堂讲授 36 学时。以教材为主，以主题